Political Parties

• Octobrists

  • These were wealthy moderate conservatives who named the party after the Manifesto.
• Rightist Parties

  • These parties heavily supported the Tsar.
  • Examples of this included the Black Hundreds.
• Kadets

  • The most liberal party in the Duma.
  • Supported full civil rights, a parliament, a constitutional monarchy and some land redistribution.
• Trudoviks

  • Formally a part of the SRs, they had split and created their own non-revolutionary party.
  • Mainly liberal ideas such as nationalising non-peasant land, 8 hour working day and a minimum wage.
• Progressives

  • Businessmen who favoured moderate reforms.
• SD

  • By 1905, this was no longer a party as they had split into the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.
• SRs

  • Revolutionary populists who supported land redistribution.
  • Because of this, they had a lot of peasant support.